Speech Communication Discipline

UNIT MISSION/GOAL(S)

To introduce UMM students to the study of the multidimensional
nature of oral communication, including rhetoric, human communications,
and electronic mass media; to promote the skills of life-long learning;
to develop in students the capabilities for active involvement in a
participatory democracy.

Unit Mission/goal(s) and the Institutional Mission
Relation

Rhetoric was the first liberal art and remains essential to the
functioning of all other liberal arts. As human understanding of the
nature of the process of communication has developed there is a greater
appreciation for the centrality of the subject to the exploration of
ideas, the functioning of democracy, the creation of culture. Speech
Communication is foundational to the functioning of any strong liberal
arts curriculum.